The Russellville Democrat., 1887-12-14
NEWS IN BRIEF.
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PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

been increased Dy kiux hHIubeft ct lthty contributing St,00D and the Pope $500
 SECRETARY FAmcHtLp has srecommended that the salary of the assistant treasurer at San Francisco be increased to $o,0o0per annum, and the salaries of the assistant treasurers at Chicago. New Orleans and St. Lonis to 5000 each.
 ON the 6th the two houses of Congress held very brief sessions and both bodies adjourned oyer until the 18th. From the present outlook, very little will be done in either branch of Congress until after the holiday recess.
 ON the 6th, after lingering illness, Arch-Ab Boniface Winners, O. s. B., founder of the Benedictine order in the United States, died at St. Vincent's Alb boy, Westmoreland County, Pa.
 THE convicted Anarchist, Herr Most, has been admitted to bail pending appeal in his case.
 ON the Sth a report came from London representing that Jay Gould has stirred up lively rumpus among his English CO., adjnsters in the cable pool by demanding better terms for the Western Union Tels- graph Company than are now accorded it.
 ON the Sth Edward Harrington was con victed and sentenced to one months Imprisonment at Dublin for publishing re- ports of proceedings of suppressed branches of the National League.
 A FEW days ago Miss Catherine Gee was bitten by the same dog whose bite caused the death of Mir. Dieterick in Waverly, 0. Miss Gee's wound was on the arm and soon healed, but on the 2d the sore reopened, the patient became averse to water and she is now showing signs of pronounced hydrophobia.
 ON the Sth a number of representatives of wool industry held a meeting in San Francisco, and adopted resolutions to the effect that any reduction in the tariff on wool would seriously cripple the industry and greatly decrease it's production in California. An appeal is to be made to Congress to maintain the present tariff on wool.
 DIED, on the afternoon of the Sth at Pulaski, Tenn, Mrs Benton McMillin, wife of Congressman McMillin, of Ten- nessee.
 THE great iron firm of Armstrong Bros 6 Co., of Glasgow, Scotland. have failed.
 ON the 9th the Republican National committee issued it's call for a National convention.
 ON the 9th Nina Van Zandt was recog- nized as Mrs. Spies by Chicago library association.
 ON the 9th two thousand members of the Evangelical Alliance paid their respects to President Cleveland.
 MR w. K. VANDERBILT has arrived at Constantinople in his steam yacht, the Alva. After weeks sojourn he will pro- cecd to Jerusalem.
 THE revenue reformers in the House of Representatives at Washington, it is es- timated, will send out more than 500,000 copies of the Presidents message, the orders for the same already being close to 500, 900.
 ON the night of the 9th John L. Sullivan boxed with Jack Ashton in the presence of the Prince of Wales. The pugilist was introduced to the Prince, who expressed himself as delighted with the perform ance.
 ON the 9th. while the members of the Evangelical Alliance were waiting on the portico of the White House. just prior to their reception by the President and Mrs. Clevelan they were joined by a man who, in loud voice, began to sing the doxology. He was led off by the police.
 THE statement is made in London, on what Is said to be reliable authority, that the doctors attending the German Grown iHNo uOt thAHEtu oPlhioho as regards his case, and that the optimist views recently taken are baseless.
 ON the evening of the 9th Secretary and Mrs. Whitney gave handsome dinner to Rt. Hon. Joseph Chamberlain. Covers were laid for twenty. There were pres ent Speaker and Mrs. Carlisle, Secretary and Mrs. Fairchild, Secretary Endicott, Mr. and Mrs. Angell, Mir. and Mrs. Put nam, Secretary Bayard, Mrs. Macalester Laughton, Admiral and Mrs. Franklin, Sir Lionel West. Sir Charles Tupper, Miss Hunt and Mrs. Hit.
 ON. the 9th Miss Theresa Brennan, q young lady employed in the Englewood, (Il.) Telephone Exchange, received off, cial notification that she and her brother were heirs to Sl5,0O0 each. The money was left by an uncle, John Brophy, who died seven years ago in California, and the cash has been lying fin Canadian bank drawing interest ever since.
 OE the 9th Captain s. $. Blackford, formerly of the Capitol police at Wash ington, dropped dead on Indiana avenue, in that city. Captain Blackford was originally from Ohio, but after serving throughout the war and losing an arm in battle he went to Washington to live, and was for several years Captain of the Capitol police. He was subsequently, connected with the Agricultural Depart ment, where he was employed at the time of his death. He leaves q wife and one dong htcr